The Virginia Passenger Rail Authority has awarded Lengthy Bridge Rail Companions the design-build development accomplice contract for the Lengthy Bridge Venture-South Package deal, in keeping with a Jan. 16 information launch.
Lengthy Bridge Rail Companions is a three way partnership made up of Pittsburgh-based Trumbull, S&B Development and Fay, in addition to York, Pennsylvania-headquartered Wagman Heavy Civil. The lead designer on the South Package deal is New York Metropolis-based engineering agency STV.
The whole $2.3 billion undertaking will allow separation of passenger and freight rail site visitors on the 1.8-mile railroad hall between Washington, D.C., and Arlington, Virginia, and relieve one of many largest rail site visitors bottlenecks on the East Coast. It represents the biggest of the commonwealth’s Remodeling Rail in Virginia efforts, and is a key milestone to its second wave of Virginia Railway Specific enlargement.
VPRA cut up the primary Lengthy Bridge undertaking work into north and south packages. It awarded the North Package deal to a Skanska/Flatiron three way partnership in December 2023. The company additionally picked a Flatiron and Herzog workforce to construct the Franconia-Springfield Bypass.
“The number of Lengthy Bridge Rail Companions completes the workforce that can construct the biggest of our Remodeling Rail in Virginia initiatives, which is able to considerably change the best way Virginians journey,” mentioned DJ Stadtler, govt director of VPRA, within the launch.
South Package deal work entails development of a new two-track railroad bridge and an adjoining bicycle-pedestrian bridge over the George Washington Memorial Parkway and Potomac River, in keeping with a information launch from Wagman. The workforce can even construct new retaining partitions and embankments for the Parkway, in addition to a brand new fender system throughout the Potomac River Navigational Channel.
The Lengthy Bridge Rail Companions workforce will take the undertaking by the ultimate design section and incorporate “revolutionary different technical ideas,” per VPRA’s launch. Heavy development on the South Package deal is predicted to start within the fall of 2026 and is slated to be considerably full in 2030.
